St. Landry democrat., 1887-07-23
LORD ROSEBERY ON HOME RULE.
The Leading Liberal Peer Denounces the
Alliance That is Grinding Ireland.

The Leading Liberal Peer Denounces the
Alliance That is Grinding Ireland.
Responding to the toast of THE House Of
Lords last night, at the City Liberal Club,
where he was presiding at House dinner,
Lord Rosebery said if he were to try to vim
dicate that assembly for its legislative
| achievements in the present year he should
! find himselfin difficulty, for it has been
for the last two months attempting to hatch
an added egg; because no partisan of the
| present government. however hardened,
would describe the Irish land bill of the pres
ent government as anything but an egg in
that unpleasant condition. Laughter 1t
was necessary for a Liberal peer whotook an
interest in affairs of state and of his party to
look down the long passage which led to the
House OF Commons, because 1t was lncreaS-
lngly evident that it was more and more diff
ficult for a Liberal peer to take any real lead
ing part or control in the affairs of the party,
| belonging as he did to a very small minority
of an assembly which did not rest on a pop
ular suffrage therefore he could not but
look little to the assembly which did rest
on popular suffrage.
And what did they find there? They
found one Of the most deplorable spectacles
that could meet the eyes Of a patriot. They
saw government which all wished should
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which might at any moment be removed
from it, and which, therefore, was not in the
position OF stability which all wished to see
IN any government of this country. He de-
plored that emphatically on the grounds that
all wished our government to be strong so
that it might be respected by foreign
countries, and that its decisions might be
considered as final and as based upon the
national will both abroad and in our great
colonial empire. Hear, hear. Consider
ing the two sections into which the Liberal
party was divided at the present moment by
the broad line of the policy to be pursued to
ward Ireland, the noble lord said the line
was not, in his opinion so broad as was gen.
orally supposed. He was not Of opinion that
we had arrived at the parting of the ways,
and they were not friends of the Liberal party
who said that the sections were bound to be
separated forever
The Liberal party had hitherto derived its
strength from the extreme wing which
formed the ideas of the party and from the
other wing whose high character and great
ability and administrative experience made
it an invaluable portion Of the party. No
permanent division between those sections
ought to take place, and he did not believe
it would take place. The Liberal party, in
its great mass, would be united for this rea-
son, that the nation would not allow it to
remain disunited, and would not tolerate
disunion. As regarded the policy to be pur-
sued toward Ireland, he dlu not know the
remedy for her disorder, or the way to gov
ern Ireland, but he had conviction we had
never applied the right mode of government,
for the remedy had never yet been found, or.
if il had been, it had not been accepted by
the British Parliament and people. That
was belief in which the whole Liberal
party were united. If they wished for real
union of the Liberal party they could at least
cherish the idea of reunion and refrain from
any language which would endanger re-
union. If that resolution were adopted they
would take long and a propitious step to-
ward the reunion of the Liberal party.
(Cheers. ]-London Standard